In the 10 years from when I was 19 and got my first rig to when I was 29 years old, I either wrecked or completely totaled 29 vehicles, 3 times what this says is the lifetime average.
I have literally owned so many cars, trucks, vans and motorcycles that I can’t remember them all anymore.
Wow… I’ve owned at least 40 vehicles, most bought new. Need wrecked any of them….
I’m on #6 at 54. Guess I’m an average joe….
36 wore out or rust out another 10 never really got around to legal plates 5 bikes and a couple dirt only toys. Hated the thing for rolling over easily was a 54 servicar 45flathead and tank shift with reverse had more fun with that than all my other bikes. Most fun on 4 wheels was two toys that had 450 hp+ never got caught thankfully
Westcoast Mailmaster Mail Truck (a 3 wheeler!) – 2 of ’em, years apart.
67 Camaro
67 Corvette Two-top 427 L88 engine
74 Honda Civic
two ’57 two-door Chebbies
Geo Metro
Chevy Sprint
Chevy Nova
Ford Wagon
Ford Econoline Van
two Chrysler minivans (Voyager and Caravan)
two Taurus sedans
Taurus Station Wagon
Jeep Cherokee
’03 Jeep Grand Cherokee
’89 SHO
’85 34 foot Beaver Motor Coach
…that’s all I can remember. Whew! The Honda Civic was the only car I bought brand new. The last three are currently in my stable.
About average for us here on Bustednuckles…
Leigh, you need to check in with us – you may have all of us beat, who knows??
Sorry, Igor – Tinker has me beat by a mile. Unless I get to count racecars, OHV’s, and parts cars….. Seeing how he included equipment – game on.
Also, do they have to run to count?
70 F-100 4×4
81 Fairmont
79 Thunderbird
83 Monte Carlo
87 F-150 4×4
99 F-150 4×4
79 F-150 4×4
89 Dodge Dynasty (I paid $150 for it – give me a break)
97 Taurus GL
83 Dodge Snow Commander – it was free and pushed snow
89 Taurus GL
93 Lincoln Continental
01 Taurus SLS
02 Taurus SEL
01 Super Duty
00 Taurus SE
00 Taurus SE
03 Taurus SE
87 F-250 XLT
88 Turbo Coupe
05 Escape XLT
08 Edge
14 Edge
Parts rigs:
91 F-150 short bed 2WD – bought the 99 and sold this off
01 Taurus – Pulled engine for my green 2000.
77 F-350 – Brother only wanted dump bed. Parts for my 79.
04 Taurus – Had a bad trans. Current donor for Battle Taurus.
87 Thunderbird – started as project, turned donor for 88.
Toys / Equipment:
93 Suzuki GSX-F 750 Katana
00 Sportsman 500 ATV
03 Trail Boss ATV
94 Indy Super Sport – sled
94 Indy 440 – sled
01 Indy XCSP 600 – sled
98 Gator 6×6
71 Ford 3000 tractor
88 DIRT Prostock / Limited Latemodel – home built
91 CJ Rayburn DIRT Latemodel
72 Ski Doo Nordic 399E – sled
I’ll leave out my riding mowers. š
There may be a couple I forgot, but you get the point.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Which one’s the tractor?
Did I miss it?
Been driving a half-century, on my 8th vehicle, mostly trucks and vans.
The two before this one, each lasted 13 years.
At 78, I’m on #20. Don’t foresee any future buys.
1965 Impala – Which I purchased, just after I rolled it.
1963 Impala
1969 Chevelle
1964 C10
1964 Olds Starfire
1975 Liberty Superglide
1975 Malibu
1958 Apache pickup
1970? Toyota Celica
1979 MGB
1969 Bonneville Wagon
1966 Ford Van
1964 Impala more door hardtop
1974 Knuckle/Pan Yes, a lot of parts that donāt belong together
1978 Chevy Custom Van
1986 Pontaic 6000
1973 TR6
1974 TR6
1976 TR6 – Frame off
1961 MGB
1970 MGB x2
1978 MGB
197? GT6 x2
Current fleet
2004 Town Country
2012 Jeep Liberty
1989 Holiday Rambler
1993 GMC Sierra SLX
2005 Superglide – the only one I didnāt buy broken.
1966 Honda 50
1968 Honda 50
1964 Honda Benly 150
1989 VW Cabriolet
2001 Beetle TDI
197? Erickson Skidsteer
1978 Case 1816 Skidsteer
Holy cow. I’ve owned a total of 13 vehicles, 3 of which were work trucks that I ran the balls off of (one at a time, not concurrently) and junked each when they had either transmission or engine failures that weren’t worth fixing versus their overall residual value. my first car was a mid 80’s Ford escort. drove that until the camshaft failed because the mechanic I had do repairs on the engine didn’t torque the bolt in the end properly, and all the oil spontaneously leaked out driving it home from his shop on the highway. Not enough time to react and prevent smoking that little 1.6L inline 4. That was a real pisser.
My second car was a big old 91 Cadillac (I developed a taste for big luxury yachts in my early 20’s, and they could be had cheap on the used market at the time). Sold it when it began to nickel and dime me to death in stupid repairs. Bought a newer mid 90’s Cadillac that I still have today, and has been an outstanding car in every way.
Have had a couple of project cars I owned and fixed up, then sold to turn a small profit, the last of which was about 3 years ago. Not planning on doing any more now, in all likelihood.
Presently own 5 vehicles of the 13 total referenced above, and am looking for a new (used) work truck (which will bring the total lifetime ownership figure to 14), but pickings are slim here at the moment, unless I want to overpay for a used up hunk of shit (which I don’t). I’ve never totalled any vehicle, and have had only a few very minor fender benders, all but one of which were the fault of other drivers hitting me.
Actually, I guess I could technically say I’ve owned 17 cars at this point, since I’ve purchased and parted out four others, but they were never driven except to put them on a trailer for the trek home after purchase. I did have the titles to them, at any rate. What was left of those after stripping them went to the scrap yard, and got me back about $100 on each carcass.
Age 18 – 62, I’ve owned 4 vehicles so far. From 1980 – ’85, a ’66 VW Beetle. From ’85 – 98′, a 1976 Dodge D-100 Adventurer pick-up. From ’98 – ’03, a 1986 Chevy Suburban 4×4. And ’03 to now, a 2000 GMC Sierra 4×4 pickup. All of them left me with over 200,000 miles on them (currently GMC has 225,000 plus). I don’t sell vehicles for wants only when I have to.
141 cars/pickups so far 1 new ’14 focus, 1 used ’21 jetta
139 junkers-only 5 non running that i had to drag home
I drove over 40 miles one way to work for over 15 of the 35 + years that I worked at the foundry from the age of 18 until 53. I never figured out whether it was better to drive a new car, a mid level car, or a total car on it’s last legs, and replace it with similar when it died.
Of course that was when you got close to 100,000 miles and started to look to replacing it before it nickeled and dimed you to death. Now if your car can’t do over 200,000 you curse the manufacture over a lemon.
There is a big difference between a car that you had to tune up every 20,000 miles or so and one that is continuously adjusting itself so that it is always in tune. Hell, I don’t even change the spark plugs anymore unless there is a problem that necessitates addressing them. Since moving to a city from the country I don’t even change my own oil now, since I can’t just either use the old oil for chainsaw bar oil or dump it on my dirt driveway. Not that I ever would do that, of course.
Forgot a few make it 41 on the road plus the bikes add 4 tractors a wheeled and a tracked loader and 2 fork lifts. Finally got a ārealā job and that put a crimp on toys at least for now
“I canāt remember them all anymore.”
There’s some I’d rather like to forget, like that Ford Grenada in sickly flesh tone beige & vinyl roof. I bought it off a friend’s sister, so she could raise some cash for groceries.
And yeah, I drove it.
Make it 42. Forgot the obscene flesh beige and vinyl bird
I can’t remember them all either, but i’d guess in the 30’s.
Only dealer new car was ’76 VW Rabbit, I loved it, but traded it for a ’53 Willys Wagon with chevy small block. Next newest was a ’03 Hyundai Elantra, we got at a “Stadium Event” in ’06, it had 4000 miles on it. Turns out it’s Toyota reliable, still driving it with almost 300k on it now.
Lots of half and 3/4 ton pick ups, one 76 ford F600 dump, one 74 Super Camper Special, 1 ton, that I bought in 2014 (in San Diego) to pull my enclosed 22′ car hauler (full of non U-Haul Pod valuables) to Tennessee. It has a 460, 4bbl with a 4:10 posi rear end. I got between 4 to 5 point something, miles per gallon coming cross country. Oh, the trailer had 20,000 lbs in it, a little over loaded. I also, still have an ’86 Toyota, 1st gen, 1 ton, it towed the Elantra full of household stuff.
So before you became a tough sumbitch you were a hellion.
I smell a lot of insurance fraud in the rest of you derelicts.
7 damn I need to get rich to catch up wid u derelicts
’58 Ford Fairlane (sucked) 1965, my first car
’58 Ford Thunderbird (cool) 1966
’63Plymouth Valiant (ran it’s ass off) 1967
’55 Chevy Belair (2 Door Post, awesome ride) 1968
’69 Chevell SS 396 ( Butternut yellow, Black vinyl top and Black interior(genuine 14 second qut’r, tire burner upper. My Favorite, sold it how stupid can I be?) ’69
’56 Studebaker Pickup (blah, oil field special) ’74
’67 Chevy Impala SS (nice car but iot ahd a lot problems) ’75
’69 Chevell (fast, loud, 4 speed, coupe) ran good for long time ’78
’79 Ford 150 Supercab (company truck) From 1979 until 1991 I drove company vehicles pickups only.
92′ Datsun(ratty, but dependable until it broke.) ’94
’94 Izsu Truck (awesome brand new, worked good) ’94-96
’96 Chevy Tahoe (Brand new. New job in IT, Made 1 payment of $370. IT Compay gave a monthly car allowance of $450 a month. Drove that bitch until it had 650,000 miles. Used the car allowance to buy a boat and get started in a small lake house. The Tahoe died completely. By this time I was retired and on my own. WAHHHH.
2006′ Chevrolet pickup. Bought in 2016 used good truck. Still have it.
Life’s been good to me,
most of the time.
Damn now Iām up to 47 No wonder I could rarely afford a new car